Blount County, Tennessee Wills Microfilm Roll #139

Vol 1 page 152

The will of:
WHITE, Ann

Know all men by these presents that I Ann White of the County of Blount and State 
of Tennessee of sound and Disposing mind and memory but being aged and infirm of 
body and believing the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death and being 
desirous when it shall please providence to call me home of having Satisfactorily 
arranged and settled all my temporal affairs do for that purpose hereby make and 
publish my last will and testament.

1st  I will and bequeath my Soul to the God who gave it and my body to the earth 
to be decently interred.

2nd  I will and bequeath that after my decease my funeral expenses and all my 
just debts shall be paid.

3rd I will and bequeath to my daughter Sophronia White a Negro girl slave named 
Juliann and her two children, Mary Jane and Sally.  Both slaves and  their increase 
if any to have  and to hold the same during life and Sophronias children after her 
if any and if none I desire that my said negroes and their increase if any go to the 
Benefit of Ann G. Houston's children Martha W. Houston and Elizabeth Houston and 
Sophronia Houston and they enjoy the benefit of my said negroes and their increase if any.

4th I will and bequeath to my Grand daughter Martha W. Houston one negro girl slave named 
Harryette to have and to hold the same during life and her increase if any and the said 
negro and her increase I desire they go to the benefit of Martha W. Houston and her children 
if any.  I further will that Martha W. Houston have one feather bed and furniture.

5th I will and desire that my son John White have one negro boy slave named Westley to have 
and to hold the same during life  by paying two hundred dollars in current money to Ann G. 
Houston's children Elizabeth Houston and Sophronia Houston when they come of age.  I further 
will to my son John one feather bed and furniture.  I further will to my son John one half 
of my sheep.  I also will to my son John one third of the household and kitchen furniture.  
I also will to my son John my horse Beast.

6th I will and desire that my daughter Sophronia White have one half of my sheep.  I also 
desire that my daughter Sophronia White have the balance of my household  and kitchen furniture.

7th I will to my daughter Ibby Hutchinson five head of sheep.

8th I also desire that my daughter Sophronia White have 2 milk cows.

9th I will and desire that my friends John White, Robert Porter and Wagers Reeder shall execute 
this my last will and testament and do by these presents constitute and appoint them my Executors 
for that purpose publishing and declaring this my last will and testament hereby revoking and 
annuling any other former wills and testaments by me at any time heretofore made in testimony 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6 of January 1842.

                                    Ann White {seal}

Signed and Sealed acknowledged as the last will and testament of Ann White and published in our presents.

Attest }B. F. Duncan [seal]
       }Alexander C. Houston [seal]